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IMPROVING AT LOU1SYILLI Better Track Conditions Bring Lively Work by the Horses Patches Again Attracts Attention Attentionat at Douglas Park Some Fast FastGallops Gallops Expected Today LOriSVILLK ICy April 17 Track conditions showed improvement at Chunhill Downs today and as a result a large number of horses were out fir gallops including quite a few Kentucky Derby entries High speed for short distances was shown liy some of the latter but with the exception of rand Slam which was sent a mile in l45i none of those at the Downs was asked to go far at a fast pace paceAt At Douglas Park Patches was again the center of attraction rnll he ran a mile in 113 He covered an additional eighth in 1 eased up The colt showed fast fractions 25 W and lli and at no stage of his workout was lie urged to any great extent extentCrand Crand Slams trial was the fastest here to date as he ran a quarter in 2t threeeighths in hnlf mile in IS fiveeighths in 101 three quarters in 111 and seveneighths in 12 Matinee Idol accompanied him as a pacemaker pacemakerPrince Prince Pal was given an easy gallop of a mile in 1 rl running the quarter in half mile in and threequarters in 122 He ran alone for the first quarter of a mile where Hast Indian joined him and finished out the journey with 1 wc U kJl HlfUta equipped with early speed when lie rilii sT Half mil n 1 the first quarter in 24 He did not hnvi a pacemaker On Watch was sent the same distance and his time was 11 Trainer Max Hirsch plans a longer workout for the C W I ft Drrby horses tomorrow morning 1 1 lack Hackle from the Monfort Jones stable and with W Sims in the saddle covered a mile in I pulled up almost to a trot at the finish He onlv ran the first half mile going the quarter in 114 and the half in rOf Rouleau from the fame stable was galloped a mile in Ho was in the middle of the track all the way waySimpleton Simpleton showed good form in running a mile in 117 lie ran the half in 11 and his rider slowed him clown after that thatThe The diminutive Alta Poy II this morning gal ¬ loped u half mile in IS fiveeighths in 101 and threequarters in 11 11Captious Captious threeyearold filly by Ormondale faprice was sent lo T M Murphys farm just outside of the city this morning to be mated T ith Golden Maxim A halt nierest in her has been acquired by James T Clark local business man and sportsman and she will later be trans ¬ ferred to his new Xestledon Stud near St Mat ¬ thews Ky The filly went wrong yesterday and Van Meter decided that it would be useless to try to train her any more moreGOOD GOOD NEWS FROM HOT SPRINGS SPRINGSParry Parry Anderson was an arrival from Hot Springs Ark where he put in the time since the Jefferson Park meeting closed He said that the most 1 roiiiiili lit business men in the Vapor City are con ¬ fident that racing will be resumed there next j ar arJoe Joe rmensetters stable has been further thinned out for the coming spring racing season as Texas Spnial Pigtodo and J J Murdock had the firing irons applied to them yesterday They with Sam Ileedman which was recently gelded will be Ktrned rut until autumn Xoae of the remaining 1 iiunstter horses will be sent to Lexington to race tills spring springJ J W Parrish Midway Ky banker and owner of several thoroughbreds trained by John S Ward was 1 visitor at Churchill Downs this morning Hi saw Midway his stake horse work a mile in com ¬ pany with Dodge in I John T Ireland stopped off here today en route to his home in Lexington from Havana His horses were sent direct to Lexington LexingtonCharles Charles F Srainger is the racing manager at ChueliiH Downs and Hamilton C Applegate is pi rfoiaiiig the duties of auditor of the Kentucky Jo key Club Harry llreivogel will be chief as ¬ sistant to general manager Matt J Winn at Lex ¬ ington this spring as well as at Latonia Mr AVinn left for Cuviiiglon Ky this afternoon to spend Sunday with his family familyOther Other workouts at the Downs this morning in addition to those mentioned were as follows followsKifi Kifi II and Discussion together threequarters in lis Furbelow fiveeighths in 1OS Out he Way and Legotal together threequarters in 1111 Docod mile in llrig o War threequarters in 1215 Looking Ip threequarters in 117 Or lova threequarters in 122 Lucky 11 half mile in VI lluntemann threequarters in 122 Little Illossom and Creen Crass together fireeighths in 10 SpearUne and Drastic together mile in 14 Sway fiveeighths in l0i Hodge fiveeighths in 1OS Piedra threequarters in 119 Cobweb threeeighths in 371 Pictor threequarters in 117 Wild Flower threequarters in 120 if Jim Heffering mile in lr i
